The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Wow, this castle is tricked out! Jenny of Dos Family shares an awesome fort that her young friend Agnes’ grandmother Lena made for her. Lena thought of multiple ways to expel objects from the fort: peashooter, slingshot, elevator, plank, tosser and catapult. I would have so much fun playing with this! More: Another Dos Family […]
Recreate the Internet sensation in your own backyard! Fresh from their performance at Maker Faire, the guys at EepyBird hand-crafted replica PVC nozzles just like the ones they use themselves. Each kit contains a variety of nozzle cuts to give you the coolest, highest-shooting geysers. They even throw in a pack of Mentos to get […]
I really enjoyed this surprising and clever post by Jonathan Liu on the GeekDad blog. When I saw the headline I immediately started thinking of all the plastic toys in my house, and then saw #1: a stick. This versatile toy is a real classic — chances are your great-great-grandparents played with one, and your […]
Until I saw these recent Warhammer 40K designs from Thingiverse user 3dYeti, however, I thought good-looking gaming minis were beyond the capabilities of hobby-scale desktop FDM/FFF (Fused Deposition Modeling, which is a trademarked term AKA Fused Filament Fabrication, which is not legally encumbered) printers like those from MakerBot, MakerGear, Ultimaker, etc. Guess I was wrong!
So, I went in a different direction. We’ve been playing with R/C helicopters in the office recently, which is what inspired this gift. Here you go, John: a fiberglass R/C helicopter kit from Titan. Isn’t it neat?
A clever idea, first reported by Gareth a couple years ago: Architects are trying to figure out how to use quadrotors to haul and place individual bricks. The above link is in French; here’s a Google translation. In 2011, Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello D’Andrea launched a pioneering project around training dynamic and robotic procedures […]
OK, so, they only have five leaves each, and the actual stuff on the pages is not made of Lego elements, but c’mon: Among challenging subjects to model in Lego, surely a functional book is near the top of the list. But then, we’ve pretty much come to to expect that sort of thing from artist Guy Himber, whose masterful MOCs we’ve featured here many times before.
